Global Open Versity ICT Labs Step-By-Step Install Guide Alfresco 3.3g with on RHEL5 Server v1.0
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Global Open VersityIT Systems Integration Hands-on Labs Training Manual
Step-By-Step Install Guide Alfresco Community 3.3gwith Google Docs on RHEL5 Server
By Kefa Rabah,krabah@globalopenversity.orgJuly 7, 2010GTS Institute
1.0 Introduction
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
(
RHEL
) is a Linux distribution produced byRed Hatand targeted toward thecommercial market, including mainframes. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server versions for x86,x86_64, Itanium, PowerPC and IBM System z, and desktop versions for x86 and x86_64. All of Red Hat'sofficial support and training, and the Red Hat Certification Program center on the Red Hat EnterpriseLinux platform.On one certified platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers your choice of: (i)
Applications
- Thousands of certified ISV applications; (ii)
Deployment
- Including standalone or virtual servers, cloud computing, or software appliances; (iii)
Hardware
- Wide range of platforms from the world's leading hardware vendors.This gives IT departments’ unprecedented levels of operational flexibility. And it gives ISVs unprecedentedmarket reach when delivering applications. Certify once, deploy anywhere. All while providing world-classperformance, security, and stability. And unbeatable value. This is why today Red Hat is the platform of choice. This Hands-on Lab manual explains how to install Alfresco Community 3.3g on RHEL5 server
Alfresco
is the Open Source Alternative for Enterprise Content Management (ECM), providing DocumentManagement, Collaboration, Records Management, Knowledge Management, Web Content Managementand Imaging. Alfresco reduces your ECM costs by up to 96% compared to proprietary systems likeDocumentum, Open Text and SharePoint. It's as simple to use as a shared drive or SharePoint and doesnot lock you business in to a proprietary stack.Alfresco (Community Edition 3.3g) has now implementation for Google Docs™ integration, that makes,use of Google Docs™ seem more natural than the use of traditional desktop applications. The increasingmarket demand for and adoption of Alfresco and Google Docs™ has made an intersection of the twosolutions immanent. True to the character of the company and culture of the community, Alfrescorecognized the need, identified the value, and delivered a solution with great success.
Solution
In this Hands-on Lab session, you’ll learn how to setup virtual network on VMware (you may also use anyother virtual machines like MS VirtualPC, Linux Xen, or VirtualBox from Oracle). In this lab session, we’llconcentrate on installing Alfresco on a clean install RHEL5 Server. You will learn how to install andconfigure Webmin to help with configuring DNS server. I’ll also show you how to setup static IP addresswhich is required for deploying a DNS server. Finally, we’ll go through a step-by-step process to installAlfresco Community 3.3 Edition on our RHEL5 server. Next, you’ll learn how to integrate Google Docs™with Alfresco to deploy documents for anywhere anytime access. You’ll also have opportunity to do someassignment at the end of the lab session. Upon completion of this hands-on lab session, you’ll have
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